Kx selected by Keysight Technologies to power its PathWave Manufacturing Analytics smart factory platform
05 February 2020 - 2:17AM
Business Wire
Kx, a division of First Derivatives plc (LSE:FDP), has entered
into a strategic partnership with Keysight Technologies, a leading
technology company that helps enterprise, service providers, and
governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world.
Chosen for its high-performance streaming capabilities and enhanced
analytics, Kx will provide Keysight Technologies with deeper
insights and operational intelligence into its manufacturing data,
across a range of industries, including aerospace, automotive and
energy.
Kx will be deployed within Keysight’s PathWave Manufacturing
Analytics Industry 4.0-ready big data platform, which accelerates
ROI in smart factory digital transformation by providing real time
actionable insights to improve operational efficiency. The
Analytics-As-A-Service platform acquires, transforms, ingests and
analyzes test equipment data. The partnership with Kx combines
Keysight’s test and measurement domain expertise with data science,
using high performance data mining and machine learning models that
works for electronics manufacturing.
This platform will help customers across a host of areas
including; improving OEE and reducing unplanned downtime; reducing
wastage such as retest and rework and solving root cause chronic
manufacturing test issues for permanent resolution. Keysight
Technologies and Kx are excited that the partnership will ensure
products get to market faster; will accelerate data analysis with
modern visualization tools designed for the Test and Measurement
world; improve manufacturing operational KPIs (yield, throughput,
quality and asset utilization) with advanced algorithms; and grant
the ability to monitor operations and detect anomaly in
real-time.
Kx helps because it allows to gather huge streams of data, in
real-time, to analyze that data very quickly, and to make decisions
when seconds count, electronics manufacturers will be able to
accelerate time-to-market and cut down on waste.
Seamus Keating, CEO, Kx, said: “We know Kx technology has the
ability to change the game for our customers. By partnering with
forward-thinking companies such as Keysight Technologies we can
make it easier and faster to adopt, helping our clients to solve
critical business issues and drive value.”
“Keysight’s Pathwave Manufacturing Analytics provides our
customers with immediately actionable insights, based upon advanced
analytics and our deep expertise in measurement technologies in
printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) manufacturing”, said
Christopher Cain, VP/GM of Electronic Industrial Products at
Keysight Technologies. “Kx provides a platform that enables
aggregation of extremely large data sets, with low-latency that
enable faster insights in a broader variety of industrial analytic
opportunities.”
About Kx
Kx is a division of First Derivatives, a global technology
provider with more than 20 years of experience working with some of
the world’s largest finance, technology, automotive, utility,
manufacturing and energy institutions. Kx technology, incorporating
the kdb+ time-series database, is a leader in high-performance,
in-memory computing, streaming analytics and operational
intelligence. Kx delivers the best possible performance and
flexibility for high-volume, data-intensive analytics and
applications across multiple industries. The Group operates from 15
offices across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, including
its headquarters in Newry, and employs more than 2,400 people
worldwide.
For more information about Kx please visit www.kx.com. For
general enquiries, write to info@kx.com. For press inquiries, write
to pr@firstderivatives.com
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology
company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments
accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight's
solutions optimize networks and bring electronic products to market
faster and at a lower cost with offerings from design simulation,
to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in
networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide
communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive,
energy, semiconductor, and general electronics end markets.
Keysight generated revenues of $3.9B in fiscal year 2018. More
information is available at www.keysight.com.
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